Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Jerry Graybeal

Reaching 500 games is a great accomplishment. That's a lot of games for any coach. She's a great example of stability in our women's basketball program and it has translated to success on the floor. Carla has been a great representative of Weber State as a player and coach for more than 25 years.

Tony Parker

Definitely difficult to lose him. He was coming back very well. He was starting to play very well. He was playing good basketball so it is hard to lose him again.

Herb Kohl

No two umpires, or no two referees, have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game, ... And ballplayers and basketball players understand that, depending upon who the umpire is and who the referee is, the game can be called entirely differently.

Marika Sandrelli

Sometimes some of the best therapy happens in a basketball game, with a coach. Sometimes the best conversations happen in a smoke pit.

Tony Skinn

Seeing him be so happy kind of motivates us to know that basketball is a game of fun. You get too serious and get too tense, you might have jitters on the court, so we're trying to stick to that mode of having fun. It works for us.

Mike Warrington

Ryan is a true competitor and does not back down from any challenge presented to him on the basketball court.

Stu Jackson

Ron has been exemplary this season in terms of his behavior on the court. My hope is that it is an isolated incident and that he'll continue to play the high level of basketball that he's been playing at.

Earvin Johnson

said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

Mike Fratello

That's who Bobby is. That's his style of play. He's a high-energy guy. He can be instant offense. He can cause havoc on the defensive end. ... It's like a personality trait. Everybody doesn't have that. But he does.

Rob Schremp

What we need to do is hit Bobby Ryan a little more. He's a tough guy and he's trying to get through the neutral zone a little too easily. Maybe we need a good open-ice hit or a few more hits to slow him down. We do that, maybe we do a better job of shutting him down.

Tommy Bond

The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he'd cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry.

John McGrath

We heard Bob Dylan singing up on the hill.

Charles Bukowski

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

Tom Odell

I think everyone mentions Bob Dylan, but he's someone I just admire so much as a songwriter. I think people write songs, and then there's Bob Dylan songs. He's one step ahead of just everybody else.

Folks still remember the day ole Bob Riley came bouncing down that dirt road in his pickup. Pretty soon, it was bouncing higher and higher. The tires popped, and the shocks broke, but that truck kept bouncing. Some say it bounced clean over the moon, but whoever says that is a goddamn liar.

Helen Chandler

Bob was terrified of dancing. He thought it was for sissies.

Lisa Endlich

Bob spearheaded some of the more risky trading businesses, the proprietary trading businesses in which the firm did so well in the 1980s and the 1990s, ... Those brought a lot more risk to Goldman Sachs and with it, an enormous jump in profitability.

Bill Belichick

He's got a very good complement of skills,

Josh Boone

Mainly it's Marcus, to be honest with you. Marcus is telling me a whole lot of times where to go. He'll just come up to me after a play and say, 'Next time slip that.' I'll be like, 'All right,' and he'll just throw a perfect pass. It just really helps to have a guy like him on the floor leading us.

Cary Thompson

She ran our offense all year. She was a real floor leader for us.

Terry Boe

Michelle has to take the front seat tonight. She led our team up and down the floor tonight.

Karl Hobbs

His status is at the point where he's getting up and down the floor a little bit. And we're hoping that he'll be able to play on Thursday.

Doc Rivers

He's been great. He's been in a zone on the floor, off the floor with teammates. He's just been in a zone all the way around.

Rick Forney

He has a great sense for the game, he has a great sense for when the opponent is off-balanced. His vision on the floor is tremendous and he showed that.

Brian Cupples

The floor was really open. We were able to get to the basket. Our kids made plays.

John Washington

The floor plan has expanded about 30 feet,

Stephen Braveman

The floor is a nice place to be when you're trying to be quiet and have intimacy. You can't hit your head on anything, and you have more space to spread out.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own

Nick Zito

It was tough yesterday. I just had to leave really early. It all just got to me with High Fly. I've got a headache right now just talking about it. But that's the way it goes.

Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Dan Lankheit

As I said, the head on this thing was unreal.

Eric Snyder

This weekend is really important. It's one of the weekends we've been working from the very first practice for, and this is where all the training and work we've done all season will pay off. We're one of the top teams heading down there, so we'll just hope we do enough to move on.

Robbie Bennett

We think it is his knee. But we're still not sure. That's where we're headed now.

Stephen Chick

We think Home Depot is headed for a stall.

Mark Waggoner

There's going to be these lingering problems. There's still too much uncertainty in the New Orleans area. I think we are headed back to $70.

Elizabeth Campbell

We just had to keep our heads up and not quit.

Brian Tracy

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Aubrey Peeples

It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day, what size you are does not matter at all. I don't have time to worry about that stuff; I'm going to be healthy.

Dave Bautista

If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Rupert Murdoch

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

Steve Jobs

Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!

Robert Browning

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Archie Manning

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Jane Fonda

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

Jane Fonda

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

Jane Smiley

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Bobby Womack

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

Charles Spurgeon

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.